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ç >> sreenivasan: allen's tenure began just a day after taliban insurgents claimed another high- profile assassination. a close aide to afghan president hamid karzai was killed sunday in a gunbattle at his home in kabul. it followed the murder of karzai's half-brother last week. for more on afghanistan we turn to pam constable, who covers south asia for the "washington post." pam, thanks for being with us. the series of high profile assassinations have picca off important targets as well. one of the former governors of a province. why is it significant? >> well, particularly in light of the fact that it came so quickly after the assassination of the half brother of president karzai who was killed in kandahar just days before this, the killing of this former governor in another southern province along with another guy who was also close to the president, this is cumulatively speaking, it's a big blow for the karzai administration. you know, it'sçç confidant, relatives, high-level aides going back into april some of them are being killed. but more than who is doing it or who it's happe
ç >> sreenivasan: allen's tenure began just a day after taliban insurgents claimed another high- profile assassination. a close aide to afghan president hamid karzai was killed sunday in a gunbattle at his home in kabul. it followed the murder of karzai's half-brother last week. for more on afghanistan we turn to pam constable, who covers south asia for the "washington post." pam, thanks for being with us. the series of high profile assassinations have picca off important...
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. >> it will boost to the more out of the -- the morale of the taliban and weaken the malof th afghan government. chaos might be and beaten back. this is a tremendous achievement for the taliban. >> they appointed another one of his brothers to a key role in the region to stave off political fighting and. >> women's soccer, japan is leading sweden by three goals to one in the world cup semifina with 20 minutes left to play out. when will face the u.s. wonhd. >> for american fans, it was all the hope for and more. the first serious offensive play unfolded in the ninth minute putting u.s. on the board. afterth, egog got tougher. france and several gold and opportunities to even things up and capitalized in theif ftof that. they went all the way through to even the score at 1-1. france state of theffsi pressing -- pressuring the american defense. she proved herself as one of the stit a picture-perfect header. to-1. another superb offensive play. maintaining her composure to seal the deal. the u.s. women are just one game away from the trdor c title. >> the score japan of sweden, 3- 1. we
. >> it will boost to the more out of the -- the morale of the taliban and weaken the malof th afghan government. chaos might be and beaten back. this is a tremendous achievement for the taliban. >> they appointed another one of his brothers to a key role in the region to stave off political fighting and. >> women's soccer, japan is leading sweden by three goals to one in the world cup semifina with 20 minutes left to play out. when will face the u.s. wonhd. >> for...
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years against other militant groups which are armed and are alleged to have links to al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan. the security forces claim success. alongside these operations have been many arrests of people on the flimsiest of grounds. so, the people of this traditional muslim country could be pushed into the arms of radical groups by the government's own heavy-handed tactics. and by the continuing policy of corruption with lights their lives. -- blights their lives. >> it was billed as an automobile -- as an awesome deal. facebook is launching a video chat service which will be provided by skype. for more on what this means for the industry, i spoke earlier from san francisco with the editor at large with c-net. what does this mean that you will be able to do on facebook that you could not do before? >> pretty simply it means that if you looking at a vista of your friends on facebook, there is now a simple click to have a video chat with them using the skype software that you used to have to leave facebook to use. now, you can do a skype video chat or call without leaving faceb
years against other militant groups which are armed and are alleged to have links to al qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan. the security forces claim success. alongside these operations have been many arrests of people on the flimsiest of grounds. so, the people of this traditional muslim country could be pushed into the arms of radical groups by the government's own heavy-handed tactics. and by the continuing policy of corruption with lights their lives. -- blights their lives. >> it...
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a man opposed to the taliban. like so many other tax, the brunt of it was borne by ordinary afghans. more people are also dying from nato air strikes. late on wednesday, six villages were attacked among the victims, women and children. it led to a wave of anger. protests have taken place pressing for the withdrawal of western forces. that is about to happen imminently. some are wondering, at what cost? starting next week and over the next several months, thousands of nato troops have begun to a withdrawal. handing over security to local afghan forces. questions are being raised about whether there are taking on the role especially after these high-profile killings. >> now, austerity is a word and a condition many europeans have been forced to adopt all though it is sparking massive protests across the continent. italy's senate passed its own cost-cutting package coming after investors started to worry that the eurozone could be the largest economy to be sucked into the debt crisis. our europe panter reports. italy
a man opposed to the taliban. like so many other tax, the brunt of it was borne by ordinary afghans. more people are also dying from nato air strikes. late on wednesday, six villages were attacked among the victims, women and children. it led to a wave of anger. protests have taken place pressing for the withdrawal of western forces. that is about to happen imminently. some are wondering, at what cost? starting next week and over the next several months, thousands of nato troops have begun to a...
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they also have the pakistani taliban attacking them. we're also the point of a new low in u.s.-pakistani relations. so the idea that pakistan would instigate a crisis with india at this point is inconceivable to me. >> what about indian intelligence-gathering and a security? there have been a number of threats, particularly since 2008. is this any reflection on the indian authorities competence in this area? >> there will be questioned about another attack in mumbai. again, four attacks in the last 10 years. after 2008, there were major reviews within india about internal security, and in this case, there will be a very close examination of how quickly india responded. they have their national security guard deployed there. they have friends a unit on the scene. they need to hopefully -- they have forensic units on the scene. they need to hopefully see having that experience corrected in that beleaguered city. >> in other news, police and venezuela have regained control of a prison east of the capital after a standoff that lasted for 27 days. more than 800 inmates have not give
they also have the pakistani taliban attacking them. we're also the point of a new low in u.s.-pakistani relations. so the idea that pakistan would instigate a crisis with india at this point is inconceivable to me. >> what about indian intelligence-gathering and a security? there have been a number of threats, particularly since 2008. is this any reflection on the indian authorities competence in this area? >> there will be questioned about another attack in mumbai. again, four...
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well the taliban certainly is. to itself and certainly has killed a lot of afghans also done a lot of harm but remember the taliban is somewhere around fifteen to eighteen thousand strong in southern and eastern afghanistan so not a major part of the population but it's more of the mindset of trying to control things so basically as the taliban comes into the peace process comes into the afghan government the taliban will begin to reconcile itself with the population and become more congenial simply because it has to if it wants to be taken seriously by the population we've seen this across the world it is a reign corporation study shows. violent groups are brought to peace significantly as they're brought into the peace process so it's not uncommon and it's confusing but it's it will happen ok well there are a lot of ifs and there are a lot of contingencies in the meantime you know we don't know exactly how it's going to play out and you have an afghan army that is less equipped than u.s. forces they have a fracti
well the taliban certainly is. to itself and certainly has killed a lot of afghans also done a lot of harm but remember the taliban is somewhere around fifteen to eighteen thousand strong in southern and eastern afghanistan so not a major part of the population but it's more of the mindset of trying to control things so basically as the taliban comes into the peace process comes into the afghan government the taliban will begin to reconcile itself with the population and become more congenial...
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left sixteen militants dead in the south of the country the operation comes in response to renewed taliban activity asked foreign combat troops began their withdrawal from afghanistan nato as new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for more after the afghan president's half brother who ran the south of the country was recently gunned down by insurgents one of comic cars ice top advisors has also been assassinated anti-war activist brian becker thinks the u.s. led coalition is losing its grip on afghanistan. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the telegram but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessary at least to get afghan face to the nato occup
left sixteen militants dead in the south of the country the operation comes in response to renewed taliban activity asked foreign combat troops began their withdrawal from afghanistan nato as new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for more after the afghan president's half brother who ran the south of the country was recently gunned down by insurgents one of comic cars ice top advisors has also been assassinated anti-war activist brian becker thinks...
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, al qaeda and taliban, is to lie low, let time pass, and then rise again. so declaring... giving a timeline, i have always been saying that it ought to be effected, what effects do we want to create? you can't have it time related because then you'll be in the hands of the enemy, i would say. and if you leave in 2014 without stabilizing afghanistan, what will happen then? we need to visualize. >> well, the problem is... the difficulty i think for america is afghanistan hasn't been stable since, i guess, hannibal. (laughter) so the idea that we could stay there... (laughter). they don't appear to want to be stabilized so i mean... i guess the problem is can we really do that? can we do that for a country and is pakistan going to give them the room that they would need to do that or would they perhaps try and have some influence with the taliban adds well? >> well, first of all, i think afghanistan was stable since centuries. >> jon: well, obviously i was being humerus. (laughter) ... humorous. >> they had an agreement. the ethnic groups decided to stay toget
, al qaeda and taliban, is to lie low, let time pass, and then rise again. so declaring... giving a timeline, i have always been saying that it ought to be effected, what effects do we want to create? you can't have it time related because then you'll be in the hands of the enemy, i would say. and if you leave in 2014 without stabilizing afghanistan, what will happen then? we need to visualize. >> well, the problem is... the difficulty i think for america is afghanistan hasn't been stable...
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staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the u.s. and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessary at least to give afghan face to the nato occupation that itself is now crumbling he's armed attacks these assassination attempts are designed to create panic and i think in all likelihood they are creating panic within a very hard to foundation of the karzai government the u.s. is losing grown steadily its spending one hundred twenty billion dollars a year that's an increasing amount from the treasury that's already drained based on huge budget deficits here the number of casualties on the afghan and american side is is increasing decreasing and yet they're no closer to victory in fact they're losing control of
staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the u.s. and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of the karzai regime necessary at least to...
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the taliban step. is claiming responsibility for more high ranking this comes as naysay begin to hyundai have been told of the company's profits is. facing huge question mark save their business until. the crisis in the gulf in rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police. resigns a behind the scenes to a former news of the world newspaper executive from the phone hacking scandal. and russian security forces who are in a major terror plot. and police have arrested a group of people from london says he read legend the planning an attack on crowded areas in that major trial. more news than around fifteen minutes time but right now they miss school safety unit a little village and schools and. go all smoking with featuring king gold has won the british a prince of the old days the. beautiful indeed he's forty two there's not a six pack in sight but darren clarke is the british open champ and we're going to have a look at how he did it in just a second. welcome to sports to be here with me u
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killed in a blast in turkmenistan but there is confusion as state officials say there were no paid taliban. and a crumbling empire the owner of a british tabloid accused of hacking into tones of murder victims expected in london to deal with a crisis before the last edition goes to print. four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the georgian government says high profile photographers arrested this week were linked to russian special services and passed on secret information to them if three men have now been charged with spying after being arrested thursday for more we go live to our correspondent peter all over following the story. peter so tell us more about the accusations that are made against these photos well they were just full of people arrested on thursday pull up photo journalists one of them has now been released without charge now it turns out she's life full of one of the three photojournalists that of being held in custody now of those three would slow the european press agency one is a personal photographer for president. saakashvili
killed in a blast in turkmenistan but there is confusion as state officials say there were no paid taliban. and a crumbling empire the owner of a british tabloid accused of hacking into tones of murder victims expected in london to deal with a crisis before the last edition goes to print. four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the georgian government says high profile photographers arrested this week were linked to russian special services and passed...
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have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle. i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that was journalist gerry van dyke commenting on the killing of the afghan president's half brother. new nato airstrikes have hit the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel qadhafi valve's he'll never leave his country this comes after his opponents have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority by over thirty nations led by the u.s. they said they would deal with of the rebel transitional national council until an interim government is in place the measures that give the insurgents access to gadhafi the assets including billions of dollars which have been frozen in american banks but as a po
have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle. i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that was...
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with us robbie watching around the world is kevin knowing that i had one update for you and for the taliban steps up the same time afghan officials claiming responsibility for more high ranking killings it comes as nato begins to hand over control of the country provinces to local forces facing huge question marks over their ability to cope. with the crisis and govern rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police the country's most senior policeman and followed by his deputy now in quitting over their links to newspaper executives and board of the scandal over phone hacking and bribery. and russian security forces for the major teleport there moscow police arrested a group of people from the north caucasus who allegedly planning an attack on a crowded area of major transport hubs. a russian cosmonaut companion for the hubble telescope blasted off and awarded to help explore the deepest secrets of the universe the radio asteroids unparalleled equipment can penetrate even the furthest reaches of the galaxy so the boffins say russia's space chief nowthen outlines his out of the w
with us robbie watching around the world is kevin knowing that i had one update for you and for the taliban steps up the same time afghan officials claiming responsibility for more high ranking killings it comes as nato begins to hand over control of the country provinces to local forces facing huge question marks over their ability to cope. with the crisis and govern rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police the country's most senior policeman and followed by his deputy now...
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the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan and we get eggs about opinion on how the pullout of u.s. troops on the country couldn't bring security there. just imagine this piece is about four and a half billion years old not the earth. space or wrongs but is it cosmic passion or busy to profit we explore what lies behind the need to write fever that's spreading in central russia. while turning from countries causing trouble for the european union to others still have to join it so he is expecting a progress on its ear you integration is following the arrest of crime suspect goran hardage but harper made the key hurdles membership is still needed clearing out it may be extradited to the hague on saturday r.t. sara first reports south of the serbian capital belgrade. the governments very much looks to the west the public opinion actually does this quite significantly now the last time i was in belgrade at the end of last year i spoke to the deputy prime minister head i asked him why there's st
the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan and we get eggs about opinion on how the pullout of u.s. troops on the country couldn't bring security there. just imagine this piece is about four and a half billion years old not the earth. space or wrongs but is it cosmic passion or busy to profit we explore what lies behind the need to write fever that's spreading in central russia. while turning from countries causing trouble for the european union to...
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about the future of the country the afghan army is known for recruiting drug addicts and people with taliban connections. from challenges in space to those here on earth are. one of the first humans to step foot on the moon . he told r.t. as add landing is the most important part of an astronaut's mission is interviews next. i am. it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always want to ask you are we alone out there. there's no evidence that says that. we're not alone but i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are where there are no there's no evidence and euthanasia will flow. you know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information and we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation mediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either in a testing of unusual object or something from beyond the earth. there are many many explanations for things that are unidentified and it talks many of those explanations are in your backyard there's som
about the future of the country the afghan army is known for recruiting drug addicts and people with taliban connections. from challenges in space to those here on earth are. one of the first humans to step foot on the moon . he told r.t. as add landing is the most important part of an astronaut's mission is interviews next. i am. it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always want to ask you are we alone out there. there's no evidence that says that. we're...
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the taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as make the begins to handle control of the country's problems is to local forces facing huge question marks over their ability to cope. and russian security forces for a major terror plot in moscow that's believed could have caused. also the former head of b.p. tony hayward on russian oil company's roof and fast on that business of thinking. welcome this is r.t. it's nine pm monday night now here in moscow my name's kevin start another day another scalpers the news of the world scandal continues to unravel pretty the second most senior police officer is now quit following the example of his boss who resigned on sunday it follows revelations they hired a former news of the world executives of media adviser. more pressure on the prime minister david cameron who also hired a former editor from the same newspaper. reports. the feeling on the ground here in london is that this is an unfolding scandal not one which is drawing to an end every day there are more allegations and more arrests and resignations and this missiles we
the taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as make the begins to handle control of the country's problems is to local forces facing huge question marks over their ability to cope. and russian security forces for a major terror plot in moscow that's believed could have caused. also the former head of b.p. tony hayward on russian oil company's roof and fast on that business of thinking. welcome this is r.t. it's nine pm monday night now here in moscow my name's kevin...
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policy he said so this is a very big coup for the taliban they will have to deal with. with his hard line for all. american human rights activists according on their country to practice what it preaches when it comes to torture washington often condemns other countries for such methods yet campaigners say controversial u.s. army academies still training offices in brutal interrogation techniques can in forward met one torture survivor who's on a mission to get it closed. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock tech there out east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. relives every day people have survived torture in colonial times very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for ten days does the stand there and then they get shot and kill many had been disappear after says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the americas in fort benning georgia army major joints of blair was an instructor there
policy he said so this is a very big coup for the taliban they will have to deal with. with his hard line for all. american human rights activists according on their country to practice what it preaches when it comes to torture washington often condemns other countries for such methods yet campaigners say controversial u.s. army academies still training offices in brutal interrogation techniques can in forward met one torture survivor who's on a mission to get it closed. it's been thirty years...
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have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate their force someone would have had a different reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that was our journalist jerry van dyke that committing all the killing of the afghan president's half brother. several of moscow streets are impassable right now but not because of the notorious traffic jams they've been sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious the annual moscow city racing show is that full throttle in a four wheel frenzy that seeing drivers pushing the pedal to the metal and outdoing each other tv's top gear team were there to kick it all off rather push it all off to look at this person as unlucky ness on plunging seventy eight meters at the end of a bungee and t
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ahmed wali karzai was often accused of lengths was the taliban in afghanistan's illegal drugs straight ahead of russia's federal drug control service victorian office as a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country are helping watch his full interview in just over an hour here in r.t. but here's a quick preview. this september will be the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved and it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times the assigned tasks been achieved because we see that the security in afghanistan only got worse it said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation so it's a kind of closed circle. the scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has gone international after u.s. senators called for their own prob
ahmed wali karzai was often accused of lengths was the taliban in afghanistan's illegal drugs straight ahead of russia's federal drug control service victorian office as a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country are helping watch his full interview in just over an hour here in r.t. but here's a quick preview. this september will be the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved and it's become...
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have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard in others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. and i was generous jere van dyke commenting on the killing of the afghan president's half brother. and he ran out of nato airstrikes rattled the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi fell never to leave his country in the face of assaults by the alliance and the rebels this comes after the opposition became the legitimate authority in the country in the eyes of more nations the u.s. and more than thirty other states recognize them at a diplomatic meeting on friday saying they would deal with them until an interim government is in place recognition by contact group on libya also gives the rebels ac
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on the back food tackling the taliban. the clock's ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt congress needs to raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid the folding and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon but leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there is a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effect that way alice maxwells believes america's debt addiction means there won't be a quick cure. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken the situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget the total debt ceiling for many many years as a
on the back food tackling the taliban. the clock's ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt congress needs to raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid the folding and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon but leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there is a risk...
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forces sixteen insurgents have been killed in the country so the raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as nato begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of two thousand and fourteen nato as a new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for the war effort earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own guards and in a separate incident one of president karzai is top advisers was also gunned down u.s. anti-war activism brian becker thinks the coalition may be losing ground in afghanistan with a number of casualties rise. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of cars eyes brot
forces sixteen insurgents have been killed in the country so the raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as nato begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of two thousand and fourteen nato as a new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for the war effort earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own guards and in a separate incident one...
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. >> the taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination, afghan officials said an internal feud was also a possibility. and police launched an investigation. the murder also created an incident and ominous leadership vacuum in southern afghanistan at a time when u.s. troops are to begin withdrawing. ahmed wali karzai was a powerful and controversial figure in the family's an cessual home province of kandahar and was a key power broker and proxy for his brother in the region. but he was also widely suspected of a deep and pervasive corruption. in an interview last month with the cbc, the canadian broadcasting corporation, karzai dismissed persistent talk of profiteering. >> it is never approved. i might help people to facilitate things for them when it comes to security, when it comes to organizing meeting with the population. because i'm the only person who has all the facilities. >> for years, allegations also swirled that the one-time chicago-area restauranteur had ties who afghanistan's lucrative drug trade. but karzai repeatedly denied those allegations too. and he had a con
. >> the taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination, afghan officials said an internal feud was also a possibility. and police launched an investigation. the murder also created an incident and ominous leadership vacuum in southern afghanistan at a time when u.s. troops are to begin withdrawing. ahmed wali karzai was a powerful and controversial figure in the family's an cessual home province of kandahar and was a key power broker and proxy for his brother in the region. but he...
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have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that was journalist gerry van dyke commenting on the killing of the afghan president's half brother. now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the world at this stage of the day egypt's former president hosni mubarak has suffered a stroke and is in a coma according to his lawyers doctors were reportedly working to bring the eighty three year old leader to consciousness but health officials and state t.v. have denied the information saying condition is stable it comes after the country's prime minister reshuffled his cabinet in response to renewed public protests demanding political reform. but i
have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that was journalist...
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for taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as they to begin sunday between shoulder of the country's provinces to local forces facing huge question mark save their ability to cave. cops and how good is the crisis in the gulf in rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police that with the resignation of competence in a senior officer. and russian security forces the will of major terror plot near not scale which is believed could have caused huge loss of life and. a very warm welcome this is live from moscow now the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack or the murders khan estell we call it a hundred calls lies half brother who round us out of the country was gunned down the taliban is tech not of the salt on our town officials as major combat troops begin that with school on sunday the alliance hundred overcontrolled with the first of seven designa
for taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as they to begin sunday between shoulder of the country's provinces to local forces facing huge question mark save their ability to cave. cops and how good is the crisis in the gulf in rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police that with the resignation of competence in a senior officer. and russian security forces the will of major terror plot near not scale which is believed could have caused huge loss of...
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it's in the taliban what it is also saying is that pakistan wants to be at the table also because don't forget most of your viewers know this the leadership of the taliban is not enough gana stand like al-qaeda it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has institutional backing and all the stories that we're covering are also available online along with latest blogs and videos at r t here's what's a click away right now. check out the leads video footage of the plane rescue operation just hours after a burning aircraft landed on a lake in eastern siberia. and always look both ways before crossing the road look at that a street racer pushes a sports car to the max in central moscow but his need for speed and again crash carnage. and outrage grips britain over allegations aimed at several newspapers into rupert murdoch's media empire including getting secret information about the queen and former prime minister gordon brown that senior police officers have been quote have been questioned by m.p.'s over claims they knew about the scandal richard addus editor in chief of th
it's in the taliban what it is also saying is that pakistan wants to be at the table also because don't forget most of your viewers know this the leadership of the taliban is not enough gana stand like al-qaeda it is in pakistan it cannot operate there independently it has institutional backing and all the stories that we're covering are also available online along with latest blogs and videos at r t here's what's a click away right now. check out the leads video footage of the plane rescue...
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policies rather than afghan policy he said so this is a very big coup for the taliban they will have to deal with. with his hard line for a while. and the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that's still a no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out and now israel's eyeing it up as a luxury getaway artie's policy or has the story. this old in the mountains of jerusalem of the remains of a once bustling out community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel it's heavy to come back and to be. my privilege. to see the hobson's this rain also due to. my pride that. your coup de graff among the cacti and fit trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of arab villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lifter are still here so they move ahead of two thousand. he shouted mama. they will shoot do they do with the whole the whole deal with the whole deal they were to do
policies rather than afghan policy he said so this is a very big coup for the taliban they will have to deal with. with his hard line for a while. and the struggle for land rights in israel there is one place that's still a no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out and now israel's eyeing it up as a luxury getaway artie's policy or has the story. this old in the mountains of jerusalem of the remains of a once bustling out community only the...
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the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by the u.s. leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because there will be fighting it's afghan syria see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to silly fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part as the taliban comes into the peace process comes into the afghan government the taliban will begin to reconcile itself with the population and become more congenial simply because it has to if it wants to be taken seriously by the population generally speaking to afghans are better off with governing themselves without the united states or the coalition forces providing security for them because as we've seen we have unintentionally killed a lot of people and i think we would be foolish to sit here and think that the u.s. is leaving we're not leaving there will be permanent u.s. involvement in nato involvement for a long time. well elsewh
the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by the u.s. leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because there will be fighting it's afghan syria see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to silly fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part as the taliban comes into the peace process comes into the afghan government the taliban will...